Marianne Faithfull was a 1960s pop starlet and occasional actress whose personal
life resulted in a series of lurid headlines, but who gained a new respect in
her later career as a meaningful song interpreter. The daughter of a British
military officer and an Austrian baroness, she suffered as a child from
tuberculosis and was brought up in a convent. She started her music career
singing in folk clubs, but a meeting with The Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog
Oldham changed her course. Oldham moulded her into a saleable musician and she
had her first hit in 1964 with 'As Tears Go...